Andrew McNamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I don't think it's possible to say whether it's preformance critical - I can certainly image use cases such as parser generators where its speed could be noticed.
I tried building a version using regular expressions, but I couldn't do any better than 5x slower than the existing implementations, and the resulting code was less readable. _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3756> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
